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It's over....; I think
Topic Started: Jun 13 2008, 01:14 PM (287 Views)
bucky	Jun 17 2008, 05:21 PM Post #21
Gold Member Posts: 4,647 Group: Retired Staff Member #53 Joined: September 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Curious	agreed buddy, Jan was using it right up until the last but i cared not anymore, sad to say but just didnt bother installing on my new pc or laptop. I guess Atri saw it coming also good job he got out way before time as he did care abit. Anyway moving on we got them good times we can think about, i was reading a prevois post by yourself saying you was using Mercora 12 to 16 hours per day having fun and chatting.... those were the days indeed was adictive so thats what i will keep in my mind (i guess a few of us were pretty hooked back then lol) Oh yes a beer (clinky all round) Edited by bucky, Jun 17 2008, 05:22 PM.



TheSauceMaster	Jun 17 2008, 06:31 PM Post #22
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	Bucky , I'd love to give you a Hug in a non gay way Yeah I remember back when Mercora was fun. I know there was lot's of times I'd stay up 3 or 4 days straight just having fun on Mercora. That's back when chat was busy and late at night it would get kind of crazy. Edited by TheSauceMaster, Jun 17 2008, 06:35 PM.
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bucky	Jun 17 2008, 06:40 PM Post #23
Gold Member Posts: 4,647 Group: Retired Staff Member #53 Joined: September 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Curious	you dont have to hug me buddy we could just get naked and hug a tree hehe. Right best part was you and Jeff keeping us all in line and when you both played up well hehe went on for days and days, hmmm of course drink had nothing to do with it



dfxshadow	Jun 17 2008, 11:28 PM Post #24
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	Sauce, I work for an ISP, The issue is not so much that people are using the traffic, It's that companies like sprint, who own the fiber are charging so much for a line, that its impossibe to make a profit without over selling bandwidth. The whole IPTV/RADIO/TORRENT aspect threatnes this model, Many ISP's the one i work for included are setting caps, and now facing legal charges because of it. There are currently several bills being passed through congress that is going to make it illegal to set any kind of cap, or throttle an internet connection. The only real way to fight is to get behind net neutrality, and regulation. And as much as i hate to say it.. Bandwidth does need to be regulated. Just like Water, and Electricity, and you're phone. That is the only way the two big companies, ATT and Sprint, are going to come back down to reality with bandwidth prices. The fact of the matter is Fiber is very efficient, and the capacity of the backbone has grown signfigantly, while the connections between the customer and the backbone have not. IF the telco's had spent the government money upgrading this infrastructure and preparing fiber to the home. That too would not be an issue, But they did not, They misappropriated the funds, and now are paying the consequences. Working on the inside, I know that the amount of traffic for p2p has not grown very much over the past few years. What is really threatening the ISP's is things such as HULU, and xbox lives marketplace, and the very large digital downloads that compete with their own entertainment offerings.
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serrebi	Jun 18 2008, 09:08 PM Post #25
Special Member Posts: 226 Group: Member Member #55 Joined: September 21, 2004 Gender Male Mood Proud	Nice to see someone not drinking the cool aid.
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StEC	Jun 18 2008, 10:54 PM Post #26
Gender Hudini Admin Posts: 16,574 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Sick Browser Firefox Blog StEC's Blog!	Holy shit hey BUCKY bud awesome to see ya man!!!! Still sad about this news I really wish them good old days were still kicking.
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suikerbuik	Jun 19 2008, 03:49 PM Post #27
Loyal Member Posts: 491 Group: Member Member #198 Joined: April 2, 2005 Gender Male Mood Happy Browser Firefox Blog Please insert the title of your blog	Allright, enough with the tears and the wishing for days from past to come back... lets focus on the future!!!....... can anyone tell me how????



bucky	Jun 19 2008, 06:24 PM Post #28
Gold Member Posts: 4,647 Group: Retired Staff Member #53 Joined: September 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Curious	hehe STEC, DUDE nice to see ya to mate. Hey suiker most of us moved on already just some could not, jan is still trying to log in so when shes not looking or asleep i will uninstall it from her lappy knowing full well she wont be loading it again. (cruel i know) ok hug moment



StEC	Jun 19 2008, 07:02 PM Post #29
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TheSauceMaster	Jun 19 2008, 08:02 PM Post #30
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	Well sadly most ISP's here admit it's only 1-4% who are abusing the network. It's the classic case of a few rotten apple's ruin it for everyone. I'd rather see them kick abusive users and leave the other 90% plus alone. Oh the P2P broadcasting app I was talking about is http://www.peercast.org Edited by TheSauceMaster, Jun 19 2008, 08:03 PM.
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danielles	Jun 19 2008, 11:29 PM Post #31
Special Member Posts: 115 Group: Member Member #400 Joined: November 11, 2005 Gender Female Browser Chrome Blog Please insert the title of your blog	This is really bizarre. I remember when the mercora / social.fm sites went down but they're back up again??? I was playing around and found a link to someone's profile, clicked on it and it loaded the profile so i decided to go to the main site and it worked as well. It's just a shame that if this service is dead there's no notice on the main site letting people know!
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dfxshadow	Jun 20 2008, 05:38 AM Post #32
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	Yeah, in our case its about 4 percent who eat up most of the bandwidth, There is a 125 gig cap, then the customers will be throttled to half a meg of service. I disagree with that policy, but what can i do. as an avid bittorrent user, i disagree with that decesion, I dont think it should be up to any suites to regulate what type of traffic you pass, or how much you pass, if you buy a 10 meg line you should get to use the full 10 megs.. 24/7 But also being a realist, I would much rather have torrent traffic shaped during peak usage times. than throttled/blocked/capped. The packet shaping technology is very advanced. We can actually set it to give total bittorrent usage 50% of the total usage, thus making sure that it never becomes a problem, and that everyone recieves the same chunk of the pie, and if usage is low for the day, your torrents are faster. I dont like that solution any more than the other, but if its something that must be done, I would much rather see that
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TheSauceMaster	Jun 20 2008, 04:22 PM Post #33
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	I'm not a heavy user and I think the most I've ever used is 100gig in a month. I just looked at my DU Meter and Since 6/1/08 to 6/20/08 I've used 6.9 GB incoming , and 2.6GB outgoing. I think last month I probably did about 45GB and my average is about 30GB a month.
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texsguy	Jun 23 2008, 11:23 AM Post #34
Insane Guitarist type dude Posts: 1,907 Group: Member Member #609 Joined: January 26, 2007 Gender Male Mood Horny	TheSauceMaster Jun 17 2008, 05:05 PM Good to see you also Buckster I used a P2P type broadcaster like several years back. It was called Peercast I believe. Like I said though lots of ISP's are starting to block P2P type of applications here. I left Comcast because they use protocol to mess up P2P. I'm on At&T dsl right now and they haven't blocked it yet so I'm okay. To be honest I'm not surprised they didn't let anyone know they were going offline forever. I can remember lots of times users weren't informed about major changes. Ads don't make money unless people click. I'm doubting the Mobile version made much money and if many subscribed. Mercora had no real way to make money , I remember when they charged people and that even failed. I'm guessing they just finally ran out of money and no one wanted to spend more money on a product that has been on life support for several years now. That or the fucking RIAA was behind the failure....my money (this time) is NOT on the RIAA,it's on the fact that Mercora used to be cool,but when it became SocialFM it started to suck.
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